Kelvin Fowler's Blog, page 19

The Man Who Cycled The World

Mark Beaumont

Corgi Books

[Borrowed Paperback]

This is by far the most inspiring cycling book that I have read. Mark weaves a fantastic tale about his land speed record cycling around the world. It is well written, educational and wonderfully  interesting.

4.5/5

#Morning Poetry

Am swirling around my morning coffee searching for inspiration; the only thing I can find is Dave Bruebeck. He wears size eight shoes.

The Soul Keeper

Book 2 of the Castle Trilogy

M. W. Russell

[eBook (won in a raffle)]

Well again for me, this paranormal romance for teens was way out of genre. Fast reading book about ghosts, teenagers and purgatory. A good fun easy read. I plan on buying book three.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST; MAREE IS A FRIEND OF A FRIEND.

3/5

#Morning Poetry

At last poet fuel.

Thanks Julius.

Aisha Duo
& I are set
for a
caffeinated
word grinding
morn.

#Morning Poetry

oscar peterson
jazz piano
randomly
sparks words

I
idiot
catch them
spilling coffee

another messy
monday morning

life

I'm Working on a Building

Pip Adam

Victoria University Press

[Kindle ebook]

This was a fantastic little read. It is written backwards, which is both confusing and delightful. Reading this book I felt like I was counselling it, looking for signs of its broken childhood, knowing that in the next-previous chapter some dark secret would be revealed. I was not disappointed.

Do not let the order of the chapters detract from Pip Adam's somewhat prophetic voice. My highlight was her chapter about a city recovering from an earthquake. I also really liked and understood the North Korean chapter.

It is a great book for people who like to think and read.

4/5

#Morning Writing

Hot cross buns, Stan Getz, New Zealand Woman's Weekly, the resurrection & 'Peddling the Dirt'.

#Morning Poetry

I have that slow slow morning Phil Woods kind of coffee/poetry thing going down. It feels like wearing Skellerup Red Band gumboots.

#Morning Writing

Coffee & jazz kickin' in. Poetry to come...

Doubtful Sound Tour - Mandal review

Kelvin came to our little community on our small island, and gave us something we had never seen before. Just a few people came to the church the evening of Kelvin's gig. We sat and listened as Kel took us on a journey through our emotions. We laughed, interacted with questions and comments and so much enjoyed getting to know Kel's story and views on life. As we left that night, it felt like we had journeyed to Lithuania, New Zealand and Canada. We had met a black poodle, a man claiming to be God and orphans running away. We had seen the landscape of 'The Lord of the Rings', and felt the hospitality of a Lithuanian woman. And finally we had joined in as Kel read beautiful worship to our King and our saviour.
Beate Syvertsen Rudaitiene
Host Skjernø, Norway